I wasn’t sure whether or not to do a blog this Friday since, as I’m sure you’ve heard, the world, according to ancient Mayan predictions, is due to come to an end today. It seemed pointless to go to the effort of writing something for the benefit of my readers, few though you are, when  there might not be any left!

The Mayans were an extremely intelligent and advanced Central American civilization who, thousands of years ago and well before the birth of Jesus Christ, were charting the movements of the planets and calculating their effect on humanity at a time when ancient Britons were still painting their faces and throwing rocks at one another. Come to think of it, observing  the behaviour of a good many modern Britons on a typical Friday night out, not a lot of progress seems to have been made in the interim! In fairness though, at least we have had the benefit of longevity since the poor old Mayans were wiped out by the Spanish Conquistadors  in the 16^th century. So they can’t have been that clever can they?

I digress; the reason why the Mayans calculated Earth’s demise to December 21^st, 2012 is something to do with a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles causing the creation of a huge tsunami the like of which has never been witnessed before, or at least not since the days of Noah’s Ark!  Apparently, unless you are above a height of 2,000 metres (that’s about 700 metres higher than the highest part of Britain) or are lucky enough to have shares in a huge modern day ark, you’ve had it.

As for me, I’m currently in Tenerife, gazing out at the ocean trying to imagine a 2,000 meter tsunami heading for me and wondering how quickly I can get to my car and head for the mountains which, in this part of the Canaries, climb to 4,000 meters and thus well above the danger zone! It won’t happen though will it? Nah,  I don’t believe it and I’m sure we’ll all wake up tomorrow same as any other day……….hang on a minute, what’s that noise…………………………??